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Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: May 2005
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Hi everyone,
We wanted to provide a Hero Lab update related to Pathfinder and the major new books Paizo is releasing at Gen Con, “Ultimate Equipment” and “Paths of Prestige”. Both of these books require a substantial amount of work to implement in Hero Lab. “Ultimate Equipment” contains thousands of items, a large number of which are new, while “Paths of Prestige” encompasses 30 new prestige classes. Each of these alone represents a large amount of content for us to add, but the two combined are huge. Unfortunately, we only received the "Ultimate Equipment" material from Paizo on Tuesday, with "Paths of Prestige" arriving earlier this month. This means that we have substantially less lead time than usual to get these two massive books entered into Hero Lab. We’ve already begun incorporating both of these books into Hero Lab. Based on where things currently stand, we wanted to let everyone know that we do not expect to have add-ons for “Ultimate Equipment” or for “Paths of Prestige” available in time for Gen Con. We will release these add-ons as soon as they are ready and will keep everyone posted as to their potential release dates. Please note that it remains our goal to release material for Hero Lab at the same time new books are released. Based on recent discussions with Paizo, we believe it will be easier to achieve this goal in the future. Unfortunately, those changes will not help with these two upcoming books. Thanks in advance for everyone's patience as we scramble to get these books ready as soon as possible. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 175
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Thanks for letting us know about this in advance - it makes patience much easier to come by.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Sunny WA State
Posts: 141
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Agreed. Transparency always helps to reduce nerd rage.
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Thanks Mathias, it's appreciatted, and I would rather you guys get it done right the first time (or as close as you can with that much information) then rush it and be patching stuff for weeks on end. You have a quality product and I don't see the need to change that policy.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Y'know, I'm glad I came to check up on this today, because these are exactly the two books that I'm planning to be devouring in the near future. Thanks for letting us know.
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 453
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Thanks for letting us know. Take all the time you need. I am sure everyone here will understand.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Just out of curiosity, not trying to rush you guys at all, but do we have an ETA on the Ultimate Equipment?
Follow up to that, will it be it's own data package or part of one of the others? |
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Lone Wolf Staff
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 257
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Hi. We've been making some good progress, but don't have a firm date yet. We'll provide an update in our newsletter next week. We expect UE will be a stand-alone data package.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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How big of a puppy will the file be?
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